Researchers Run Apple Software on an Android Smartphone

Researchers at a US university have successfully run Apple's iPhone operating system software on an Android smartphone.

The proof of concept is based around a novel approach that avoids the usual
pitfalls of trying to run a virtualisation engine, which is the usual method for
emulating a foreign OS on top of an existing system.

The researchers adopted their rather technical approach as it uses fewer
resources that virtualisation, and on a smartphone that can be critical to
making the emulated OS work in a viable manner.

This is only a proof of concept as Apple never licenses its OS to be used on
anything other than Apple hardware, but it opens up avenues to consider, for
example, running Windows Phone OS on Android devices, or any other OS for that
matter.­

Long term, such research is more likely to lead to performance improvements
in software virtualisation on desktop devices though, as that is where the main
demand exists.

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